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The story of the Thirty Eighth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers
George Whitefield Powers
Civil War regimental life unfolds in this plainspoken, eyewitness chronicle of a Union unit's three-year journey through Southern marches, bayou engagements, and homecomings.
The Summers readers: manual, first lessons in reading
Maud Summers
Early literacy depends on connecting written symbols directly to a child’s active imagination and physical movement, turning formal instruction into an engaging process of shared thought and sensory discovery.
The Sun's Babies
Edith Howes
A quiet garden earth comes alive under the watchful gaze of the Sun-Man, where every tiny seed, creeping insect, and stubborn root works through its own appointed transformation.
The Survey, Volume 30, Number 3, Apr 19, 1913
Various
Across industrial mills, state legislatures, and public parks, early twentieth-century Americans confront the human costs of rapid economic expansion and social change.
The Turning of Griggsby: Being a Story of Keeping up with Dan'l Webster
Irving Bacheller
A small New England town collapses into pompous ruin when every local man tries to ape the thunderous, brandy-fueled grandeur of Daniel Webster.
The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country
James Oliver Curwood
A fugitive on the run, a woman with a dark secret, and a wilderness that stretches all the way to the Arctic Ocean.
The zoological gardens of Europe, their history and chief features
C. V. A. (Charles Victor Alexander) Peel
A journey across Europe reveals how mid-nineteenth-century civic pride, scientific ambition, and architectural showmanship transformed captive wild animals into public institutions.
To and Through Nebraska
Frances I. Sims Fulton
Courageous, observant, and disarmingly cheerful, a young woman leaves Pennsylvania in 1883 to chronicle the lives of homesteaders transforming the wide prairies of Nebraska.
Travels in Turkey and back to England
Edmund Chishull
Ancient ruins, dusty high roads, and diplomatic pomp meet in a scholar's precise observation of the Levant and Western Europe.
Troubadour Tales
Evaleen Stein
Four distinct historical tales capture the bright, generous spirit of old Europe through the eyes of resourceful children and noble minstrel-poets.
White Otter
Elmer Russell Gregor
A young Sioux warrior's courage and cunning are tested as he embarks on perilous adventures to protect his tribe and honor his friendships.
White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor of Calabar
A. J. Bueltmann
A young Scottish mill girl answers a call to foreign missions, trading the harsh slums of Dundee for the uncharted jungles of Nigeria.
With Drake on the Spanish Main
Herbert Strang
Cast ashore on an unknown coast, a solitary English youth must outwit hostile patrols, forge alliances in the jungle, and master the sea to win his freedom.
Woman and Her Saviour in Persia: By a Returned Missionary
Thomas Laurie
A quiet account of female education and spiritual revival among 19th-century Persian Christians.
Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Their Phenomena
Anonymous
Subterranean fires, boiling mud, and rivers of glowing stone shape the surface of our planet in unpredictable and breathtaking ways.
Worrying Won't Win
Montague Glass
Taking down a nation's troubles over a cup of coffee and a newspaper, two garment traders offer a counterweight to wartime hysteria through common sense and sardonic wit.
Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series: To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour
John Hartley
Hard work, tight budgets, and local pride shape life in the industrial North.
A Bounty Boy: Being Some Adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an Unpremeditated Trip Round the World
Frank Thomas Bullen
A raised Pitcairn islander navigates the treacherous, worldly waters of nineteenth-century deep-sea whaling, keeping his radiant faith intact.
A Short List of Scientific Books Published and Sold by E. & F. N. Spon, Limited. September 1909
E. & F. N. Spon
A detailed snapshot of Edwardian technical publishing, this text gathers hundreds of practical manuals, mathematical tables, and professional reference guides into an organized marketplace of industrial knowledge.
A Thrilling Narrative of the Minnesota Massacre and the Sioux War of 1862-63: Graphic Accounts of the Siege of Fort Ridgely, Battles of Birch Coolie, Wood Lake, Big Mound, Stony Lake, Dead Buffalo Lake and Missouri River
A. P. (Alonzo P.) Connolly
Written from the front lines of the 1862–1863 U.S.–Dakota War, this participant account records the military mobilizations, sudden prairie ambushes, and painful aftermath of a regional conflict fought alongside the American Civil War.
A Veldt Official: A Novel of Circumstance
Bertram Mitford
A disgraced Englishman tries to rebuild his life in a remote South African magistrate’s court, only to find that personal rivalries, colonial violence, and an unyielding past follow him everywhere he goes.
Abner Daniel: A Novel
Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
Land, blood, and local custom bind the North Georgia mountains, where a stubborn farmer’s reckless property trades threaten to drag his family into ruin.
Adeline Mowbray
Amelia Opie
A woman's devoted practice of radical moral theory destroys her social standing and tears her life apart, proving that high-minded principle cannot protect a heart from a unforgiving world.
Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms
Guido Bruno
A wandering bookman pulls back the velvet curtain of early twentieth-century print culture, exposing the eccentric dealers, backroom schemes, and silent paper treasures hidden across America's urban centers.
An Ambitious Man
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She sacrificed her heart for political advancement, only to discover that the price of her rising star was a lifetime of bitter, inescapable regret.
Archangel: The American War with Russia
John Cudahy
Isolation, arctic frost, and political confusion collide when American soldiers find themselves fighting an undeclared, forgotten war against Bolshevik forces in the freezing wilderness of northern Russia.
Barford Abbey, a Novel: In a Series of Letters
Mrs. (Susannah) Gunning
Deep beneath the aristocratic decorum of eighteenth-century England lies a world of hidden origins, desperate romantic misunderstandings, and quiet, persistent devotion.
Boy Scouts in Glacier Park: The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies
Walter Prichard Eaton
Two young Massachusetts friends venture west to Glacier National Park, trading eastern backyard wood-piles for the towering scale, sheer precipices, and bitter winters of the high Rockies.
Brother Jonathan
Hezekiah Butterworth
Courage and quiet faith sustain a Connecticut community as it serves as the secret engine of the American Revolution.
Cape of Storms: A Novel
Percival Pollard
Youthful ambition burns bright, but the cynicism of the modern city proves a dangerous reef for a tender heart.
Celtic religion in pre-Christian times
E. (Edward) Anwyl
Ancient Europe’s native devotions reveal a layered human attempt to find safety, honor the earth, and balance the terrifying forces of nature.
Chats to 'Cello Students
Arthur Broadley
Mastering the violoncello demands both physical discipline and musical intelligence. This 1899 manual breaks down every technical hurdle for the aspiring student, from purchasing a first instrument to delivering a soulful concert performance.
Cheap Jack Zita
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
A fierce young woman bound to a travelling peddler's van finds herself stranded amidst the social unrest and treacherous, ice-bound marshes of nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire.
Child's Story of the Bible
Mary A. (Mary Artemisia) Lathbury
Simple narrative clarity transforms ancient scriptural heritage into an intimate household journey.
Chitta Ranjan
Sukumar Ranjan Das
A lifetime of intellectual brilliance and material wealth yields to a higher calling when a master of the bar surrenders his fortune to lead a non-violent revolution for his country's soul.
Dab Kinzer: A Story of a Growing Boy
William O. Stoddard
Fast-growing, easily overlooked, and awkward in his clothes, fifteen-year-old Dabney Kinzer finds himself suddenly propelled toward adulthood through small-town changes and unpredictable seaside adventures along Long Island's south shore.
Dahcotah: Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman
This vivid 1849 chronicle captures nineteenth-century Dakota life, blending garrison observation, spiritual lore, tragic romance, and cultural portraiture along the Upper Mississippi.
Daisy
Marshall Saunders
A young clerk loses his footing in a foreign town until an unlikely child turns his heart back to where it belongs.
Daughters of Destiny
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
A secret ruler, a hidden identity, and a struggle for an Eastern throne collide in a tale of high adventure and unexpected love.
Dave Dawson on Convoy Patrol
Robert Sidney Bowen
Tense ocean skies hold the line as two young pilots risk everything to bait a killer sea raider into the open.
Dialogue
Anthony Hope
Dialogue is a sophisticated inquiry into the mechanics of fictional speech, exploring how writers use talk to define character, advance plot, and resolve the paradox of authorship. It serves as a masterclass in literary craft.
Drowsy
John Ames Mitchell
A gifted, daydreaming boy discovers he can transmit thoughts and manipulate physical forces, leading him from a quiet village to an astonishing flight across the solar system.
Elizabeth Visits America
Elinor Glyn
An aristocratic young English wife, parted from her husband by a petty quarrel, sets sail for Edwardian America and records the headlong collision of European refinement with raw Western vitality.
Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Ferdinand Werne
An intrepid observer navigates the treacherous, shifting currents of the White Nile, capturing a vanishing world through the lens of a nineteenth-century European expedition. This record serves as a bridge to a frontier defined by both scientific curiosity and the brutal realities of imperial expansion.
Flop Ear, the Funny Rabbit: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
Separated from his forest burrow by a hunter’s gun, a young rabbit with a single drooping ear wanders into a series of domestic and wild encounters as he tries to find his way back home.
Greuze
Alys Eyre Macklin
A young painter captures eighteenth-century Paris with moral domestic drama, but his enduring legacy belongs to the luminous, voluptuous maidens who outlived his fleeting fame.
Growing Up: A Story of the Girlhood of Judith Mackenzie
Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.
A young girl faces life's small daily choices with an earnest heart, learning that true growth comes from yielding her self-will to faith and service.
Gypsy's Cousin Joy
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A spirited country girl must share her room and her routines with a newly orphaned city cousin, turning their sharp daily friction into a deep, enduring bond.